On Jan 15, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
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I've never seen the insides of a PL/1 compiler, but I bet it would take some work to
get it to fit on a PDP-11... :-)
Johnny
Maybe so. Then again, PL/1 is essentially a hash of Cobol and Algol stirred by 1000
monkeys, so since both its ancestors fit in a PDP-11, PL/1 presumably could also. For
that matter, IBM had one on the 360 that ran on a 128 kB 360/44, so the job could be done
in a PDP-11 class machine.
paul